5/XII. Dear comrade! We have received: 1) a statement from delegates of conscious workers of the BK RSDLP regarding the reorganization of the BK, 2) A leaflet from the Balakhani and Bibi-Eibat workers from 20 October, 3) a leaflet from the BK "New Policy of the Fox's Tail," 4) A necessary clarification, 5) a statement from 9/XI. We do not have the resolutions of the Baku Committee, nor do we have

the resolutions of the conference of the Caucasus committees, which, it is said, were sent to us.

Regarding the "statement," it is necessary to remark as follows. At one time (in the summer) a very detailed letter arrived from the Caucasus representative of the CC concerning the history of the minority question. This letter was immediately forwarded to the Central Organ, so that the Council knew his opinion perfectly well, and CC member Glebov, who took part in the examination of the matter, also knew it.

The majority is publishing a brochure "The Council Against the Party," in which this matter will be examined in detail on the basis of the opinion of the Caucasus representative of the CC.308

Please inform us what size packages can be sent from Sosnowice. Answer this question as soon as possible.

At present there is a fierce dispute between the editorial board of *Iskra* and the majority over the question of the zemstvo campaign. The editorial board published an absurd leaflet "only for party members," in which it made a dreadful mess of the question concerning the attitude toward the zemstvo men. Lenin answered with a brochure "The Zemstvo Campaign and the Plan of *Iskra*."* The question contains nothing conspiratorial in it, and yet this question is so important that it requires open discussion.

Therefore, demand that the editorial leaflet on the zemstvo be reprinted openly for everyone. Otherwise it is a scandal: in *Iskra* one thing is said, and in the leaflet for party members something else. This question agitates everyone. Parvus sent a letter in which he speaks in favor of Lenin's point of view and against the minority's point of view. The brochure "The Zemstvo Campaign and the Plan of *Iskra*" has been sent to you.

Tell Lenochka that her letter has been received; it fell into the hands of the minority and was passed on in an unsealed form. I will write to her in a few days—she is such a great pessimist...

With comradely greetings, Lenin

Written in the hand of N. K. Krupskaya

* See Works, 5th ed., vol. 9, pp. 75-98. Ed.

TO M. M. LITVINOV. 8 DECEMBER 1904

Written 5 December 1904

Sent from Geneva

Published for the first time, from a copy